Runaway Nurse: The Mafia King's Remorse

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the door averted their gaze, shif

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to a bottle of whiskey

with the cruelty of a predator toying with its

at the am

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me a monster when the liquor took hold, a creature of rage and sorrow

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est. "You disrespected the Family, Elena. You dr

ing. Or mayb

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table, my legs f

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ervice tray next to it. In a blur of motion,

my head back and slipped a handful of the yellow dust

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started

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own my face, hot

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lass. It shattered, sending shards of

s voice was rough, like

d seized my wrist. "

y arm away

my veins with a reck

a. "Is she worth it? Does she know how to hold you when the nightmare

warned, a dangerou

ords tasting of bile and whiskey. "I

stumbled to

!" he

lway before my legs

er kicked in wit

body rejecting the poison

s of my vision, narrowing

arms lift me u

roaring, his composure sha

ce echoed shrilly from the

up,

holding me ti

face agains

ke sandalwood

his shirt, my consciousness fa

in a hos

nt of antisepti

chair next to me. His hea

ing sitting in the ru

" he said, sit

aze fixed on the white ceilin

voice low. "Elena... why did you dri

told

an..." He trailed off, th

hed for

the sheet, hiding

I said, my voice cold as ice. "

as if I ha

ling your

said. "And it's all

a caged animal. "I'm doing this for th

countered. "And I unders

me with a terrifying intensity,

l. "Contract or no contract. Wife or no wife.

d strode out

the heavy doo

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e pristine white shee

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